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Toward an Urban Health Advantage

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: In Brief Urban Health is a regular column within the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Claude Earl Fox, MD, MPH, the Column Editor, is Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Public Health Professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. Readers of JPHMP are encouraged to contribute current urban health issues to this feature. Contributions should be limited to 750 words and can be sent to the column editor at [email protected]. This column discusses what constitutes an “urban health advantage,” and examines several hypotheses to explain the better health outcomes among the urban poor as compared with the nonurban poor.

Source: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

DOI: 10.1097/00124784-200505000-00012

Authors: David Vlahov, Sandro Galea, Nick Freudenberg

Institutions: New York Academy of Medicine, City University of New York, Hunter College

Language: English

Topic: Health disparities and outcomes

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1975370312